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John Flaus is a Actor and Script Editor Australien born on 1 january 1934

John Flaus

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Nationality Australie
Birth 1 january 1934 (90 years)

John Flaus (born 1934) is an Australian broadcaster, actor, voice talent, anarchist and raconteur. He was formerly a prominent film academic and theorist. He was born in Maroubra, Sydney.

In 1953, he was a conscientious objector to military conscription during the Korean War, which he claims was instinctive anarchism:

It was just like in the movies. This bloke on the prosecution asks me, "What would you do if you saw an Asiatic attacking your mother?" – remember this is 1953. I said, "I'd try to stop him". He said, "What if the only way was to kill him?" I said, "I'd kill him." He said. "Well, that's what a soldier does, so why are you objecting to being a soldier?" I said, "Now wait a minute, you asked me what I'd do, what decision I'd take on my own initiative. If I'm a soldier someone else takes the initiatives for me, and that's an entirely different thing." This went on for an hour; at one point they tried to ascertain whether there were any religious grounds on which I wouldn't be a soldier. I said, "No, it seems to me the best soldiers get religion" – and that didn't go down too well either

He attended Sydney University as an undergraduate from 1953 to 1971 eventually attaining an M.A.
John Flaus has been active in the film society movement since 1953,published his first film reviews in 1954, and was sacked during the same year when he wrote that On the Waterfront was right-wing propaganda. He was also a member of the Sydney Push. In the 1960s, he was a member of the Sydney University Film Group and the WEA Film Study Group with such notable people as Frank Moorhouse, Michael Thornhill, John Baxter and Ken Quinnell.
He has lectured on film at various tertiary institutions, was Head of Education at the AFTRS, and designed the original Cinema Studies course at La Trobe University in 1970, the first of its kind in Australia. He became a professional actor in 1977 and has over 100 credits in theatre, film and television.

He was honoured by the Australian Writers' Guild in 1994 for his services as a script editor on various Australian films.
He presented the radio program Film-buff's Forecast with fellow film critic Paul Harris on 3RRR from 1980 to 1989.

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Adam Elliot
Adam Elliot
(2 films)
Jane Kennedy
Jane Kennedy
(2 films)
Rob Sitch
Rob Sitch
(2 films)
Mick Molloy
Mick Molloy
(1 films)
Paul Cox
Paul Cox
(1 films)
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Filmography of John Flaus (28 films)

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Tracks
Tracks (2013)
, 1h52
Directed by John Curran
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Emma Booth, Jessica Tovey, Rainer Bock, Robert Coleby
Roles Sallay
Rating70% 3.548273.548273.548273.548273.54827
In 1977, Robyn Davidson travels from Alice Springs across 2,700 kilometers (1,700 miles) of Australian deserts to the Indian Ocean with her dog and four camels. National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan documents her journey.
I Love You Too, 1h43
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage, Yvonne Strahovski, Megan Gale, Bridie Carter, Steve Bisley
Rating59% 2.9997952.9997952.9997952.9997952.999795
Jim (Brendan Cowell) is a thirty-three-year-old, emotionally stunted man who works at a miniature railway, and refuses to grow up. He lives in the granny flat at the back of his sister's house. Jim's pregnant sister Marie (Bridie Carter) struggles with her oafish brute of a husband, Owen (Travis McMahon).
Mary and Max, 1h30
Directed by Adam Elliot
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Animation
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Films about school violence
Actors Bethany Whitmore, Toni Collette, Barry Humphries, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, John Flaus
Roles Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
Rating80% 4.0486554.0486554.0486554.0486554.048655
In 1976, eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore) lives a lonely life in Mount Waverley, Australia. At school, she is teased by her classmates because of an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead; while at home, her distant father, Noel, and alcoholic, kleptomaniac mother, Vera, provide little support. Her only comforts are her pet rooster, Ethel; her favourite food, sweetened condensed milk; and a Smurfs-like cartoon show called The Noblets. One day, while at the post office with her mother, Mary spots a New York City telephone book and, becoming curious about Americans, decides to write to one. She randomly chooses Max Jerry Horowitz's name from the phone book and writes him a letter telling him about herself, sending it off in the hope that he will become her pen friend.
BoyTown
BoyTown (2006)
, 1h28
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Glenn Robbins, Mick Molloy, Wayne Hope, Bob Franklin, Lachy Hulme, Gary Eck
Roles Priest
Rating54% 2.704182.704182.704182.704182.70418
BoyTown, the greatest boyband of the eighties and the group that started the boyband phenomenon leave their terrible & bad-paying lives for one last crack at the big time. They return to the stage with slightly older fans and slightly larger pants to complete some unfinished business. These days they spend less time singing about tears, eternity, angels and their 'baby' and more time singing about divorce, shopping and picking up the kids from school & working the nearby Coles, construction site or the nearest radio station in Melbourne (with dinner).
Three Dollars, 1h58
Directed by Robert Connolly
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors David Wenham, Sarah Winter, Frances O'Connor, Julia Blake, John Flaus, Elspeth Ballantyne
Roles Old Man Williamson
Rating61% 3.050143.050143.050143.050143.05014
The film and book tell the story of Eddie (David Wenham), a principled man with a seemingly stable and happy life. He has a wife, the academic Tanya (Frances O'Connor), a daughter, Abby (Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik), is paying off a house and has a job as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and realises he has only the 'three dollars' of the title to his name.
Harvie Krumpet, 22minutes
Directed by Adam Elliot
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Animation
Actors Geoffrey Rush, John Flaus
Roles Harvie (voice)
Rating78% 3.9434253.9434253.9434253.9434253.943425
The story revolves around the life of Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, born in Poland in 1922. As a child, he begins to collect pieces of information he calls "fakts", which are presented throughout the film. At the outbreak of World War II, shortly after his parents' death in a house fire, he migrates to Australia as a refugee, settling in Spotswood, Victoria, and changing his name to Harvie Krumpet.
The Dish
The Dish (2000)
, 1h41
Directed by Rob Sitch
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Space adventure films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the Apollo program, Sur la Lune, Sur la Lune
Actors Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Patrick Warburton, Roy Billing, Bud Tingwell
Rating71% 3.597033.597033.597033.597033.59703
The radio telescope at Parkes (Parkes Observatory), New South Wales, Australia, was used by NASA throughout the Apollo program to receive signals in the Southern Hemisphere, along with the NASA Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station near Canberra.
The Castle
The Castle (1997)
, 1h23
Directed by Rob Sitch
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Sophie Lee, Eric Bana, Stephen Curry, Bud Tingwell
Roles Sergeant Mick Kennedy
Rating75% 3.7966453.7966453.7966453.7966453.796645
The blue collar Kerrigan home, in the outer Melbourne suburb of Coolaroo, is filled with love as well as pride in their modest lifestyle, but their happiness is threatened when developers attempt the compulsory acquisition of their house to expand the neighbouring airport.
The Nun and the Bandit
Directed by Paul Cox
Themes Films about religion
Actors Gosia Dobrowolska, Chris Haywood, Norman Kaye, John Flaus
Rating53% 2.672892.672892.672892.672892.67289
In the 1940s, two outlaw brothers kidnap their wealthy 14-year-old second cousin, but things get complicated when her chaperoning nun refuses to abandon her charge.
Spotswood
Spotswood (1992)
, 1h25
Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton, Rebecca Rigg, Toni Collette
Roles Gordon
Rating61% 3.095773.095773.095773.095773.09577
In late 1960s Melbourne, Errol Wallace (Anthony Hopkins) is a financial business consultant who we meet in the course of his being hired by the board of Durmack, an automotive component manufacturer, where he assesses a large work force redundancy and recommends major layoffs.